GlobCover is an ESA initiative which began in 01/01/2005 in partnership with JRC, EEA, FAO, UNEP, GOFC-GOLD and IGBP. The GlobCover project has developed a service capable of delivering global composites and land cover maps...

This layer presents a nighttime view of the earth that provides an informational and educational view of our planet at night. The image was produced by mosaicking defense meteorlogical satellite program (dmsp) operational...

UNESCO's world heritage committee has designated over 1,000 sites around the world as having outstanding universal value. This layer shows the locations of the sites, including cultural, natural, and mixed sites. [http://whc...

The vector data set is based on the FAO-UNESCO soil map of the world. The digitized soil map of the world, at 1:5.000.000 scale, is in the geographic projection (latitude - longitude) intersected with a template containing...

There are a number of different ways to define what is urban, and this dataset contains the geospatial data used by the World Bank Group to assess various definitions. Specifically, there are the following datasets:
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Worldwide cover of subway stations built up to December 2010, ridership and shortest linear path maps of subway lines between stations. Also included are the data and replication files used in `Subways and urban growth:...

Airport locations were extracted and mapped from a repository of air traffic flow, and international airports were extracted. Airports were attributed with total seats from the most recent year reported; most recent year for...